Longer words and phrases are frequently mapped onto a shorter form such as abbreviations or acronyms for efficiency of communication. These abbreviations are pervasive in all aspects of biology and medicine and as the amount of biomedical literature grows, so does the number of abbreviations and the average number of definitions per abbreviation. Even more confusing, different authors will ofte...

Many abbreviations are used in the literature especially in the life sciences, and polysemous abbreviations appear frequently, making it difficult to read and understand scientific papers that are outside of a reader's expertise. Thus, we have developed Allie, a database and a search service of abbreviations and their long forms (a.k.a. full forms or definitions). Allie searches for abbreviatio...

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This index covers all technical items papers, correspondence, reviews, etc. that appeared in this periodical during 2002, and items from previous years that were commented upon or corrected in 2002. Departments and other items may be also covered if they have been judged to have archival value. The Author Index contains the primary entry for each item, listed under the first author’s name. The ...

In the medical domain, especially in clinical texts, non-standard abbreviations are prevalent, which impairs readability for patients. To ease the understanding of the physicians’ notes, abbreviations need to be identified and expanded to their original forms. We present a distributional semantic approach to find candidates of the original form of the abbreviation, and combine this with Levensh...

People sometimes choose word-like abbreviations to refer to items with a long description. These abbreviations usually come from the descriptive text of the item and are easy to remember and pronounce, while preserving the key idea of the item. Coming up with a nice abbreviation is not an easy job, even for human. Previous assistant naming systems compose names by applying hand-written rules, w...

In the medical domain, especially in clinical texts, non-standard abbreviations are prevalent, which impairs readability for patients. To ease the understanding of the physicians’ notes, abbreviations need to be identified and expanded to their original forms. This thesis presents a distributional semantic approach to find candidates of the original form of the abbreviation, which is combined w...